Dr. Thomas Koch

Dr. Thomas Koch, 58 is Director Strategic Projects at DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsbank mbH. His current projects include set up of an SME impact venture capital fund for Sub-Sahara Africa as well as projects of DEG´s Up-Scaling Program for early-stage enterprises in FinTech- and micro-solar-sector. He is practitioner teaching professor at Ruhr-University, Bochum and Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg on project finance in developing countries and business plans for start-ups. He holds a master degree in business administration from Göttingen University and a PhD in Economics from Trier University, Germany.